Looking good, Alex! "Juliette"? I remember those were always the earliest for you...

Despite the very rough early season (rain, hail and wind damage), first couple we picked yesterday from short, determinate plants growing in 10 gal containers, "Lambada". It is the earliest again! Few more today:

Next on to ripen would also be a container "Danko", beautiful, full size heart shaped tomatoes, can't wait.

Nice work, getting some ripe ones so early in zone 7. I started late this year and am about two to three weeks behind last year. My Juliet tomatoes are still a week or two from ripening. These in the photo are an unnamed grape variety bought from a local nursery as part of a flat.

Eclectic gardening style, drawing from 45 years of interest and experience. Mostly plant in raised beds and containers primarily using intensive gardening techniques.Alex

Oh, believe me, it was a little work on my part! Quite few frosts, and 6 containers were dragged back inside the garage to "overwinter". But worth it indeed! Besides, tomatoes from containers maybe the only tomatoes I'm going to eat this year...

Entire plot showing the sign of either much dreaded CMV or herbicide drift damage. Symptoms are so similar in appearance of either one, I actually took one plant to local co-op office today, it is being shipped for testing to Virginia Tech, so wish me luck!

Yay!! This year's June racer tomato thread (for those of us in colder climates). Last year I had ripe tomatoes about the 20th of June. It is staying so cold and cloudy and wet so long this year, I don't know if I will make it for June tomatoes this year. My tomato plants are out there with flowers on them, but they are unhappy...

Not yet but I believe the following OSU Blue is going to be the first. I have or had flower sets on a quite a few plants. Though some have fade while other flowers are hanging on. We are having weird weather so we shall see. Rain is called for off an on for the next 6 day's. It's raining now, it rained last night and a few day's before that. So........................................ We shall see. Temps will be warm but I think some good old sun will do the trick.

About 3 weeks ago. I'm in New Orleans and the plants were in the ground by late February. I currently have 23 Creole tomatoes on my countertop and have given away to family and neighbors or eaten close to 40 . This has been one of my better crops with little bug damage. I put in my plum and cherry tomatoes about a month later and some of them are just starting to ripen.

gixxerific wrote:Not yet but I believe the following OSU Blue is going to be the first.

Same here, my OSU Blue are the only ones showing any color so far. None of the tomatoes on my other plants are even blushing yet.

Question, gixxerific has your plant been blue from the beginning? Mine was mostly green until about 2 weeks ago. I had started to wonder if something was wrong. then suddenly the stem and many leaves (starting from the leave center and spreading outwards) turned purplish blue, and several days later the tomatoes started too. Curiously we had very cool and mostly cloudy weather recently.

gixxerific wrote:Not yet but I believe the following OSU Blue is going to be the first.

Same here, my OSU Blue are the only ones showing any color so far. None of the tomatoes on my other plants are even blushing yet.

Question, gixxerific has your plant been blue from the beginning? Mine was mostly green until about 2 weeks ago. I had started to wonder if something was wrong. then suddenly the stem and many leaves (starting from the leave center and spreading outwards) turned purplish blue, and several days later the tomatoes started too. Curiously we had very cool and mostly cloudy weather recently.

Mine has been blue from the get go Even as a wee little baby.

Hendi pics to be forthcoming never fear. That plant and my other OSU Blue both have tom's there are a few others as well but the OSU are in the lead. Gonna be a while still.